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Hongkong Telegraph.

No. 10547

FOUNDED 三拜禮 號二十月十英港香

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938. 日九十月八

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1938

5DYLANS OF CHOWIN

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyre with 2,000 Teeth

SOUTH CHINA INVASION Japanese Forces Effect Landing In Bias Bay

HONGKONG TROOPS SENT ΤΟ FRONTIER TO PRESERVE ORDER

Captain of British Steamer Saw Fifty Transports, Warships Enter Bay

A JAPANESE LANDING HAS BEEN EFFECTED AT HACHUNG, IN BIAS

BAY.

BITTER FIGHTING IS NOW IN PROGRESS. THE LANDING WAS EFFECTED FROM A Large convoy of TRANSPORTS AND WARSHIPS WHICH CREPT INTO BIAS BAY SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.

The Captain of a British steamer which arrived in Hongkong at 5 o'clock this morning has officially reported that he sighted at least fifty transports, warships and supply ships entering the Bay at 10.30 o'clock last night.

At least 35 vessels were counted, while an additional twenty or so ships were seen in the offing.

The preliminary landing at 4.30 a.m. was it is believed, by only a few thousand men.

At least 30,000 soldiers are believed to be aboard the ships and further landings are expected to-day.

BRITISH TROOPS MOVE

The Telegraph is officially informed that two Companies of the Middlesex Regiment have been ordered to the New Territories to support the Police there. Large numbers of police officers have been drafted to the New Torritories. It is emphasised in official quarters that the drafting of soldiers and police to the New Territories is a precautionary measure to control the enormous flood of refugees expected to cross the frontier.

The Hongkong Government has constructed a huge concentration in the Territories and refugees will be detained there.

BRITAIN'S

DEFENCE

·LARDER

Almost Empty At

'Time Of Crisis

MAJ

LONDON, Oct 11. AJ. GEN. J. F. C. FUL- LER, Military Corres- pondent of the Daily Mail revealed in a special article to-day that "Britain's de- fence larder

was almost -completely empty at the

time of the crisis.

"We could not have sent 20,000 men across to the Continent for over month." he declared.

"The Territorials would not have been ready for almost a year.

"Now Britain is at last doing the right thing. We are filling that tarder.

One day the Eritish people will he shook us out of our lethargy."

General Fuller. recommends that the terms Regular and Territorial Armies should be abolished.

The landing at Hachung was effected after a bom-

bardment which commenced

at about 2 a..

It is believed that the

camp

ARABS ASK AUTONOMY

KWANGTUNG |

ANON DISTRICT"

Deep Bay

Pehling]

Timshul

Hachung

Durbel

BIAS BAY

TAIFUNG

SHUM CHUNG

MIRS' BAY

NEW TERRITORIES

Cortia Prok

Famma

HONGKONG

Harbor

HUNGARIAN

British Boundary

Taiping Harbour

Kaspul

Сортертя Вар

Pokal Point

Grain Ex. 0

China

Sea

TROOPS

CROSS CZECH FRONT

BUDAPEST, Oct. 11.

Mandass is.

World Mines More Coal

London, Oct. 11,

Millions of extra tons of coal have been mined from the earth this year, according to statistics Issued here to- day.

HUNGARIAN TROOPS marched into Czecho-Slovakia to-day to cent, compared with 1937, with Ger-

make a "symbolic, occupation" of the towns of Ipelysag and the Czech section of the town of Sateraljaujhely.

SETBACK TO SCHEME

World output has increased five per

many the greatest beneficiary.

Increase in Germany's coal output this year, is approximately 26,750,000 tons compared with last year, while

creased 12,000,000 tons

German exporta have increased by

ten million tons, while British cx-

ports have shown a five million ton incrense.

These areas have been ceded to Hungary by the Czecho-the output in the United Kingdom has Slovakian delegates at the Conference at Komorn as an earnest of Japanese will strain every

IN PALESTINE effort to drive parallel with

their readiness to hand over territory in which the Hungarian the Hongkong-Kwangtung

Cairo, Oct. 11.

population dominates. frontier and cut the

According to semi-official re-¦ Kowloon-Canton

A Railway,

demand for the

ports the Hungarian troopa werc later dominating the river establishment of a constitu- enthusiastically received by the mouth.

tional government in Pales-populace at Sateraljaújhely. By this means they would tine was the major point in With the occupation of the unanimously railway at this town the control effectively cut Canton off a resolution from all supplies from passed at the closing session of the line joining Czecho- Hongkong-Reuter, Unitel of the Moslem Inter Slovakia with Rumania passes Parliamentary Congress at Press and Telegraph_mes-

present being held here. sages.

ON OTTIEN SIDE

OF HONGKONG

Above twelve Japanese warships were seen yesterday steaming off Chungshan district and at the mouth of the Pearl River, it is said.

SIUP MOVEMENTS CONFIRMED

The resolution declares that the

Congress considers null and vold the Balfour declaration in support of Hational home for the Jews in Pales- time, und demands the immediate cessation of Jewish immigration to

Palestine.

Huge German Debt Increase

BRITISH VOLUNTEERS

London, Oct. 11. Prague, Oct. 11.

The British Legloo Volunteer The Polish and Hungarion scheme Police Force which is awaiting to detach Ruthenia from Czecho- orders to go to Czecho-Slovakia will Slovakia and unite it with Hungary leave the Olympla to-morrow

and received a set-back to-day with the embark at Tilbury on the steamers formation of an autonomous govern- Naldera and Dunera,

Berlin, Oct. 11. ment for that region. The new Nothing definite has been decided

The floating debt of the German Government is on the model of the as yet about the actual departure of Reich increased in August from 4,000 new Slovok Government which was the ships and it la not likely that million Reichmarks to 4,500,000,000 formed last week within the Czech

Anal orders will be issued 10 the

Reichmarks, representing an increase State.

Legion until all the men have em of twelve per cent, over the preceding barked. To-day large parties of the This development was announced

month, the Budapest, Oci. 11. at the conclusion of the negotiations men were engaged in taking

corps' special transport wagons to The news of the crossing of the which have been going on between the ships. The remainder of the border by Hungarian troops was the Czecho-Slovakian Government force carried out drill of various kinds announced in the following terms: and Ruthenian delegates.

including guard-mounting and crowd control-Reuter.

into Hungarian hands.--Reuter.

OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED

the

REFUGEES, APFEAL......

memoration of Hungary's King St proposal for a plebiscite will now In the Jubilee year of the com- It is hoped that the Hungarian Stephen, and in the Nineteenth year be dropped.-Neuter. of the Government of the Regent, It rejects the division of Palestine Admiral Nicholas de Horthy, Hun-

-have. crossed in any form and demands the estab-garian troopя A long-distance telephone com-lishment of constitutional Govern frontler dictated by the Treaty of munication from Walyoung. on Imment, the signing of an Anglo-Arab Trianon.-Trani-Ocean. portant East River town north of Blau treaty, a general amnesty for political Boy, conftems that 30 Japanese trans prisoners, the release of arrested finally claims the const at 0.30 p.m.

that the acceptance of the above de- Shortly after the appearance' of ¡mands is the only the warships all lights were

ex-of the problem and tinguished.

DELEGATES MEET

Komorn, Oct. 11, The Hungarian and Czecho-Slova-

AGREEMENT. CRITICISED

Morcow, Oct, 11.

GERMANY TO DEMOBILISE

Berlin, Oct. 11.

A stinging criticism of the Munich agreement and the Soviet distrust of

It is authoritatively learned that French foreign pulley is expressed in Germany will commence demobilisa- Prague, Oct. 11, the Moscow Journal's editorial to- tion on October 10. About 700 Austrian German refus day:

All Reservists will return to civil gece have handed an appeal to Sir

The polley of capitulation, says life within two or three weeks of Neil Malcolm, the High Commissioner the journal, continued after the that date-Unijed Press. for refugees of the League of Nations, Munich Agreement had been signed asking him to ald the United States and "as a result of new concessions. Legation. in. Ending them an uxylum

erect a statue to Herr Hitler because ports and li warships appeared of lenders. The resol of thle solution klan delegations met here again; this in the United States or some other 30 Germany sile hus been permitted

"We should call our forces, whe- ther they be Territorials or Regulars, our Army, for that is what they are."

STRACHEY CANNOT LAND IN U.S.,

LANDING CONFIRMED

SHANGHAI, Oct. 11.

to cccupy areas where the German

cepted all Arab' unless it is ac-morning. for: three hours and later place.

should be assembled for a short time in the The appeal says that many of the neant minority.

the population represents only on insigni- STOP PRESS

under

to consider the British and the afternoon, arited

refugees would be sent to concentra

France loses practically all her Jows 1.8 enemies with all the con-

flon camps and others are faced with political positions in Central and A proposal by the Czecha sequences which that feeling entails. Slovakian delegation, to postpong the the prospect of executiori

The resolution asks the

Govern-

south-eastern Europe, says the paper. The French Government has Prague faced with the problem violated and practically cancelled her A joint Japanese Army ments of all Arab countries to sup-meeting for a week in view of the German rule.

port the decisions reached in the lack of necessary statistical data was of finding homes for about 00,000 and Navy communique resolution and suggests the creation opposed by the Hungarians who in-

and Polish frontiers are fasued this morning con of a permanent commission in Cairo mist on an immediate discussion, and dermen refugees to whom the Hun- frms that a landing of decisions.

to watch the carrying out of the settlement of the Hungarian. minori-arian

ty problems in Czecha-slovakis, virtually closed-United Press

Professor Vinsiliarii the, Bettiah

LONDON PUND GİROWS' The special board at a Tana Japanese troops and in a preamble the resolution states ethnological and mographical expert has ordered Mr. John Stracher, the

and he

- London, Oct. 11. ~| British novelist, to be excited from marines was effected "some- that in order to show the good will has been called fog

of the Congress the Jawa already iri 16, corpeated to strive in Czecho The Lord Mayor's Fund for Czech the United States on the ground that where in South China” early paano wil be rented full rights giovani mby, ale i to-hight, Trans-, refugees is how dearly £50,000 her former relations wits Poland and be in not in possession of a properly

Ioriorusenship FÖNSTENER |to-day.--Router, Brýlised pedeport/it/nifed Frei,

New York, Oct. 11.

Slovakia and reduced to nought the alllance and pact with Chocho validity of her pacts with two other states.

thegristenés of the Falls.

become, precarious owing to..

the French" betrayal") and (France – haa sacrificed the possibility of restoring

provoked mistrust in Rumia Reuter